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      7 months ago

      And stumble upon barely useble OSes? BSDs now are as niche as Linux distros were a decade ago

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        7 months ago

        It’s more like how Linux was 25+ years ago. BSDs are great for servers and firewalls, but they aren’t really ready for desktop use yet.

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        7 months ago

        BSD based operating systems work fine for a lot of things. A huge majority of people only use their computers to browse the web, write documents and read their e-mail.
        Something like GhostBSD would work perfectly well for this, though afaik GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a different default configuration.
        Though you are not going to be able to do much that involves proprietary software, like playing video games. Unless you use Wine or a proprietary BSD based operating system like that of Sony’s or Nintendo’s game consoles, or Mac OS.
        I’m actually thinking about installing OpenBSD on my laptop, though I would not recommend doing this to anyone who just wants to stop using Windows.

        CC: @[email protected]

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        Well for one PlayStation OS uses FreeBSD and BSDs might be better suitable for Anti cheat DRM stuff game companies want.

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        Also many Gamers on GhostBSD , NetBSD (mostly retrogames), OpenBSD